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Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children In this engaging guide, Matthew Selekman presents cutting-edge strategies for helping children and their families overcome a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. Vivid case material illustrates how to engage clients rapidly and implement...

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Positive psychology is the study of happiness. Psychology traditionally focused on dysfunction—on people with mental illness or other psychological problems and how to treat them. Positive psychology, by contrast, is a relatively new field that examines how ordinary people can become happier...

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Action for Happiness

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Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children In this engaging guide, Matthew Selekman presents cutting-edge strategies for helping children and their families overcome a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. Vivid case material illustrates how to engage clients rapidly and implement...

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Happiness and Well-being (Critical Concepts in Psychology) Questions about the meaning, purpose, and pursuit of happiness and well-being have been addressed by thinkers since ancient times but over the past decade or so there has been a tremendous upsurge of scholarly interest in the subject....

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Great article that is interesting and oddly counter intuitive that you might need to cause physical brain damage to create positive effects on psychological disorders!?

I enjoy reading Dr. Peter Breggin's articles. 

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Marshmallow reward motivation strategy - do you think this works on grown ups too? I think there’s definitely an opportunity there though perhaps not with marshmallows. ;)

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over a hundred years later and....

in the early 1900's Alfred Adler a prominent Physician and forefather of Individual Psychology stated that "medicines most important challenge was to be available to the poor".... Canada 1 - USA 0 (And still defending it? Based on the Constitution?) Might be time for some revisions.

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A level nine narcissist who is also an expert on Narcissism.

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A really incredible Harvard trained Neuroanatomist who survived a stroke and in the subsequent eight years, reprogrammed her brain and completed an incredible and complete recovery. Featured on Oprah, selected as one of Time magazines 100 most incredible people and Author of the book "My stroke of insight" which is currently being made into a movie by Ron Howard. If you have any interest in psychology she is really worth knowing about. Please enjoy.

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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor lecture at Wilfred Laurier Univeristy

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor event at The Tannery in Kitchener Ontario Presented by Wilfred Laurier University I attended an event last night featuring Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (http://drjilltaylor.com) and was extremely pleased by what I gained from taking the time and spending the money. For those of you unfamiliar with her and her story, in a nutshell, she is a Harvard trained and published professor and neuroanatomist. As irony would have it she suffered a very serious stroke. The stroke saw her one year later being essentially, and in her own words "an infant, only able to rock back and forth". Using her knowledge of the human nervous system, an incredible and positive spirit and generally incredible outlook on life, (as well as a list of 40 suggestions for supporting individuals healing) she was able to completely recover. I would even suggest, and I have some experience with this, she is actually better now than she was prior to the experience. A friend of mine at The Happiness Enhancement Group taught me that they call this post traumatic growth and without a doubt it is the best part of traumatic events! Learn more at http://www.hapinesseg.com Dr Bolte Taylor had such an incredible ability to use her passion for science, and her positive outlook on life and healing and human potential and to pair those together to make you feel so fortunate to be alive, to be human, and to be so capable of anything as a result. Watch a video of her story here Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html Taking science, which to many can be very dry and unapproachable, to make it personal and to demonstrate how it interacts, in a real way, with learning, growth and recovery but also how it requires real personal engagement on behalf of the individual and the people involved in their lives in order to tap into its potential. She was very skilled at engaging you, motivating you and making you understand your role and responsibility in living a happy and full life even during trying times. Dr. Jill very successfully provided scientific and specifically Biopsychological support for how we operate in the world and how it impacts ourselves and others. She references the Amygdala and the Hippocampus numerous times and gives them very human characteristics helping you to better understand their role in every second of your life. As psychology student, I found it motivating in so many ways, but most importantly it reminded me of how putting yourself out into the world and seeking out experiences like this one; how that act of proactively seeking out knowledge that supplements classic classroom based learning and makes a more complete and enjoyable educational experience. As an adult student I have a much different take on schooling now. Obviously, not all, but I see so many younger students missing out on what their very expensive education has to offer because they are not engaging, or sadly not being engaged by the system. I want to say thank you to Laurier University for providing this experience and to my online professor Dr. Paul Mallet, whom I have never met but who made the suggestion that we attend Dr. Jill's lecture. These opportunities make learning so much more enjoyable and concrete and subsequently reinforce my choice of studying in my field and at WLU.